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Love or hate him, President Trump certainly can make America's small business feel good about their future.
Sniper saysLove or hate him, President Trump certainly can make America's small business feel good about their future.
Stop with all the good news Sniper, I am running out of champagne.
For confirmation look no further than the latest report from the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index, according to which "small business confidence blasted off the day after the 2016 election and remained in the stratosphere for all of 2017," making last year an all-time record setter for the NFIB Index of Small Business Optimism.
Having hit an all time high in November, the December NFIB Small Business Optimism Index fell 2.6 points to 104.9 in December, down from the record 107.5 last month. The drop suggested that the burst of confidence in November was more of a rebound after two months of lower readings in September and October related to uncertainties after three brutal hurricanes in late August and early September.
Discounting the November index, the December reading is in line with the overall strong tone for 2017 as a whole, and reflected solid conditions.
But the real story was not the modest slowdown in December optimism, but the monthly data in 2017: "2017 was the most remarkable year in the 45-year history of the NFIB Optimism Index,” said NFIB President and CEO Juanita Duggan. “With a massive tax cut this year, accompanied by significant regulatory relief, we expect very strong growth, millions more jobs, and higher pay for Americans.”
"We’ve been doing this research for nearly half a century, longer than anyone else, and I’ve never seen anything like 2017,” said NFIB Chief Economist Bill Dunkelberg. “The 2016 election was like a dam breaking. Small business owners were waiting for better policies from Washington, suddenly they got them, and the engine of the economy roared back to life."
“The lesson of 2017 is that better policies make for better economic results,” said Duggan. “The evidence is overwhelming that small business owners pay close attention to Washington, and that federal policies affect their decisions on whether to hire, whether to invest, whether to grow inventory, and whether to seek capital.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-09/ive-never-seen-anything-2017-average-monthly-optimism-sets-all-time-record-2017
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